Per Gardell 🌐

Freelance writer 'The 42 days a year commuter'🌻

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Even Microsoft's own Surface Pro have compatible issues with Windows 11 24H2. Strange, isn't it?

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Minns du när du gick med på X? Det gör jag! #MyXAnniversary

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Sad news 😥
Tributes paid following death of 'much loved' Simple Minds drummer #kennyhyslop #simpleminds
https://t.co/3dqdkQsLhu

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Ikea återkallar powerbank. #ikea #recall #powerbank
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The odds that it will be a nice, warm and pleasant summer are 50/50. The odds are just too bad. Almost all holiday trips are also fully booked and the remaining ones are outrageously expensive.🌧️🌦️⛈️🌦️🌧️🌦️🥶

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Oddsen att det blir en fin, varm och skön sommar är 50/50. Det är alldeles för dåliga odds. Nästan alla utlandsresor är fullbokade också och de kvarvarande är snordyra. 🌦️🌧️🌧️⛈️🌦️🌧️🥶

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@RealKiefer Sorry for your loss 😢

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So true, so true 😒

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Bored 😞

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Horrible prices. https://t.co/6coav5IZoh

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Happy #StarWarsDay !🤖👽
#MayThe4th

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Gardening today. Invented in less than 10 minutes, a brilliant accessory for the wheelbarrow. 
#gardening #wheelbarrow #invention

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Really cool! Wish I was on site. Maybe next time in Spain? #SolarEclipse2024 #Eclipse2024

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So sad news to hear that Chris Cross has left us. My condolences to his family.❤️😢 #criscross #ultravox #RIP

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was.

We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from Windows95 that we had to come up with some custom UI.

I got out a piece of paper and wrote down all the options and choices you could make with respect to formatting a disk, like filesystem, label, cluster size, compression, encryption, and so on.

Then I busted out VC++2.0 and used the Resource Editor to lay out a simple vertical stack of all the choices you had to make, in the approximate order you had to make. It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.

That was some 30 years ago, and the dialog is still my temporary one from that Thursday morning, so be careful about checking in "temporary" solutions!

I also had to decide how much "cluster slack" would be too much, and that wound up constraining the format size of a FAT volume to 32GB. That limit was also an arbitrary choice that morning, and one that has stuck with us as a permanent side effect.

So remember... there are no "temporary" checkins :)

Follow me for more random code musings!

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RIP Steve Harley 😪
#steveharley #rip #cockneyrebel
https://t.co/9DCTLJw5CM

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Happy Pi-day!
#PiDay2024

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RIP Lisa Larson.😥 Loved your art. 🇸🇪
#lisalarson #lisa_larson #keramik

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Tänk om man hade köpt de där 1000 bitcoins i början och behållt dem. Nåja, vad är väl en bal på slottet... 🫣🤯